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On July 13th, 2017 Joshua Brown was featured as a contributor for VloggerGear.com in an article entitled: “Insights From Successful Online Content Creators On How To Keep Motivated”. Below is Joshua’s excerpt, you can click through below to view the entire article.

Staying motivated, is a tricky thing. Because by simply asking the question, you are revealing to yourself that you have lost some motivation. Perhaps you are tired, or bored, or not seeing the results you had hoped for.
When we started our YouTube channel in 2015, it was just a personal travel log to share with family and friends. After 6 months and 500 subscribers, we thought, ‘Hey this could be a thing!’ After a year, we had just barely crested 5,000 subscribers and getting 500 views on a video was an achievement.
Christmas rolled around and we took a small break from making videos. During that time we felt free, but purposeless. It was then we decided to put everything we had (literally) in to making YouTube videos and share our experiences around the world with the world.
Fast forward to last week. We have 27,000 subscribers… and could barely get 1,000 people to watch a video. In that moment I felt defeated. I didn’t know why our videos had been doing so poorly. And motivating ourselves? Well that’s not really possible when you are having a pity party.
So what did we do? Nothing.
By which I mean to say, we didn’t change anything. We pressed on.
Motivation in and of itself doesn’t come from anywhere. It’s a strong will to keep going despite the current circumstances. It’s the gut feeling you know that you are giving your work everything you have. Motivation is knowing that no matter what ‘value’ others are putting on your work, that you have created something to the best of your ability. Motivation is knowing that in the end, it will all be worth it.
As the saying goes, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

“Iceland is a very expensive country, one of the most expensive country in the world for tourists, I think,” says Josh Brown who is present in the country with his wife, Ashley Brown.

Josh and Ashley maintain popular YouTube site, Way Away, where they lead interested in the whole truth about travel around the world, such as cost, entertainment and sparnaðarráð such example.

20 thousand crowns in food

They’re now in Iceland yesterday published the video where they went over the costs of being a tourist in Iceland. Although they say that is expensive to stay in Iceland say they that much of Iceland outweighs the costs. The video can be seen at the bottom of the story.

“Now we have been here for five or six days and already have spent 200 dollars on food,” says Josh than 200 bucks equivalent to over 20 thousand local currency at the current rate.

“Now we have been here for five or six days and already have spent 200 dollars on food.”

“When we left the country we probably have spent 300 dollars in fuel and last night, when we stayed at the campsite, it cost 35 dollars,” he says, but 300 bucks is about 30 thousand crowns and 35 dollars for 3,500 crowns.

Totally worth it

“So as you can imagine, this quickly accumulates,” he says, but the couple was found standing in Akureyri when they took the video. In the video they talk about the costs of being a tourist in Iceland.

“If you want to get a cup of coffee it costs 4 to $ 5 – Starbucks price but not Starbucks coffee. So yes, it’s all expensive compared to other places we have visited, “says Josh, however, states that the expensive accommodation in Iceland is completely worth it.

“But Iceland as such, the country and the people, it adds up. It is not like it is being cheated, this is what things cost here. This is a great place and the price, although it is expensive then you can justify it. ”

Have at least three thousand dollars

In the video says Ashley foreign tourists who come to Iceland should make money for before heading off. The price is higher during the summer than in winter because of the number of tourists who visit Iceland during the summer. Josh discussion ends with these words:

“So what you have much to visit Iceland for a week? At least three thousand dollars, “he says, but there are about 300 thousand crowns. Ashley adds and reiterates that this is the minimum case. So if they can afford to rent a small trailer park, called Camper Van, and he paid them two thousand euros for the week, just over 200 thousand crowns. Insurance and fuel is not included in the cost.

What are you doing in Belgrade?

Ashley: We Vlogeri, because we love to travel, we decided from this to make yourself a job. We’re making pistons and all the cities where we were and the right guide, and we are trying to do is not something that normally tourists can hear. We have heard a lot about Belgrade and that necessarily needs to come and here we are!

How did you find this hostel?

Josh: Because it would be very expensive to pay for all the whole trip, we are looking for the variants can something that we volunteer in exchange for free accommodation. This hostel was in a network Worldpackers, so that we are able to volunteer at the hostel, in exchange for accommodation.

Where will you still be so and what were you doing?

Ashley: In Ireland, we have worked on the farm, in Spain, in the vineyard, to our best experience so far.

How much time do you spend in saving these vlogs and thus more you do in addition?

Ashley: I am a hotel manager by profession, and Josh doing freelance marketing and some other things freelance.
Josh: Making these contributions quite time-consuming, almost as a full-time job, about 5-6 hours must be mounting. On weekends we do not, just enjoy.

So how is the hostel life and this is what you do?

Josh: Well, this is delicate because sleep in the hostel. We have been married for ten years. We should be alone in the room and the bed, you know, haha.